Motorcycles BS Thread 2.0

Good on you for not letting her keep you from it. I wish I had done so in my youth!

 

i wouldnt say thaaat i waited until i moved out and had money soooo when i was 27 lol

 

Lol same. it was always "not if you're living under my roof" so I moved out.

Then struggled financially for a while. Now I ride every day lol. Started at 27 too

 

My parents were absolutely against me riding a motorcycle, so I bought my first one (1999 Honda CB750) in college when I was halfway across the country. I sold that when I was done with school and moved back in to my parents house. I asked again if I could buy a motorcycle and my mom started crying. I waited till they were out of the country, bought a 2006 CBR600F4i and emailed them a picture so they would get over it by the time they got home.

Now they don't really care anymore, thankfully.

 

Has anyone heard from @FreshOldTaco lately? Haven't seen him chime in here lately

 

Man...so I work for my mom...last week she didn't know what I was leaving work early for. Asked me how my weekend was and I told her what I got up to, but left out the part about crashing...immediately got a lecture about whether I wanna be crippled, disabled, or totally invalid lol.

Wonder how long it'll take her to notice the bike is messed up. She only just noticed I'm riding a different bike like a month ago since selling my Yamaha over a year ago. And I daily it to work lol

 

The last post I'm seeing he's made is Oct 5th, in this thread :/

hope he's okay and just busy...some of us in here are pretty local to him no?

 

I'm about 90 minutes to 2 hours away and met him earlier this season for lunch. I had suggested a lunch meet for a few of us within a few hours ride but ended up going alone. He was coming off a bad bike accident, not his fault, and I just wanted to check in on him. Show up at his house and he's cleaning up his old bike. His wife gave him the okay since I was going with and I gave her my word that if he wasn't ready I would call him out. He did fine.

The October posts he and I had been planning an Iron Butt ride together for him to get his IBA number

 

I'm down! After doing my first track day on a freshly paved Laguna Seca, I'm itching to get back out there!

 

That's right I recall his crash and the recovery, and talk of the IB ride.
Fingers crossed life just got busy and he's doing alright.

 

Man laguna seca is the dream....I went there once years back when my oldest brother had a well built M3, and he took me for a ride as a passenger. what a hoot.

It really is an addiction lol

 

Just messaged @fatfurious2 to see if he has a phone number for him. I thought I had one but no joy.

 

keep us posted if you find anything out

 

Absolutely.

Have met irl about 3 times now and ridden twice together. I know he bought 2 newer bikes earlier this season and had been riding more. Hoping he just got busy and hasn't been on as much.

 

I just sent him a text. Hope he's alright.
@FreshOldTaco

 

fingers crossed

 

Yeah hope he just took an internet break for now.

 

Funny story about my mom and my riding. In 2002 on my way home from a doctor appointment around dusk I hit a deer about 1/4 mile from my home. Thankfully I wasn't hurt too bad and Buell in my avatar got fixed. My mom immediately asked if I was done riding "those damned thing". Laughed it off and told her no. Several years later she was stir frying some asparagus and failed to see one spear of it fall out and when she went to turn she stepped on it, slipped and fell, and broke her hip.

Surgery repaired the break and she went to rehab for a while. I go to visit and asked "so are you done eating that crap now? It tried to kill you." My dear mother said and I quote: "If you're going to be a fu**ING ass hole you can go home right now" Guess she didn't see the humor I saw in it.

 

We can all rest easy tonight. @FreshOldTaco is doing well. He will post here soon.

 

Thanks for reaching out for us. Appreciate it.